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Current Issue: Volume 24, Issue 1 (2022) Asian Feminisms and Youth Activism: Focus on India and Pakistan
The essays in this issue reflect the many ways in which women are not just victims of state (and familial) apparatuses of power across South Asia but have also organized and fought against heteropatriarchal class and caste oppressions, while supporting their communities against the precarious of our neoliberal times. This a joint issue of the Journal of International Women’s Studies (JIWS) and Wagadu.Articles
South Asian Feminisms and Youth Activism: Focus on India and Pakistan
Nilanjana Paul, Namita Goswami, Sailaja Nandigama, Gowri Parameswaran, and Fawzia Afzal-Khan
The Indian Mission of the Institute of Blessed Virgin Mary (IBVM) Nuns: Convents, Curriculum, and Indian Women
Nilanjana Paul
“Fiery Sparks of Change”: A Comparison between First Wave Feminists of India and the U.S.
Shoba Sharad Rajgopal
A History of Ecofeminist: Socialist Resistance to Eco-crisis in India
Gowri Parameswaran
Productivity to Precarity on Instagram: Digital Feminism in India during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Anhiti Patnaik
Networking Voices against Violence: Online Activism and Transnational Feminism in Local-Global Contexts
Sutanuka Banerjee and Lipika Kankaria
Reflections on Queer Literary Representations in Contemporary Indian Writing in English
Aakanksha Singh
Dissenting Bodies, Disruptive Pandemic: Farmers' Protest and Women's Participation in Mass Mobilisation in India
Paromita Chakrabarti
Women's Agency and Pastoral Livelihoods in India: A Review
Aayushi Malhotra, Sailaja Nandigama, and Kumar Sankar Bhattacharya
Subverting Patriarchal Interpretation of the Ramayan through a Feminist Lens: A Critical Study of Sita's Ramayana
Shruti Chakraborti
Performing Dalit Feminist Youth Activism in South India: Rap, Gaana, and Street Theater
Pramila Venkateswaran
Looking at the Nation through a Lover's Eye: N. Padmakumar's Film, A Billion Colour Story
Shreerekha Pillai Subramanian
The Fundamentalist Nexus of Neoliberalism, Rentier Capitalism, Religious and Secular Patriarchies, and South Asian Feminist Resistances
Fawzia Afzal-Khan
Book Review
Review of Translocational Belongings: Intersectional Dilemmas and Social Inequalities by Floya Anthias
Orly Benjamin